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Leverage 40 years of defense intelligence experience to zero in on the information you need to make critical decisions

Make sense of technology, data, markets and threats


Who Am I?


Defense, intelligence and media professional with extensive public and private sector experience.

→ Geo-Political Risk

What factors, individual, organizational and national are driving decision making?

→ Technology and Data

Is a given technology truly transformational, or an anachronism in the making?

→ Market Analysis

Is the “latest thing” a competitor or an opportunity?

Twenty Years Ago + or –

A week before the “Coalition of the Willing” crossed the Line of Departure (LD) on 20 March 2003, this is what I wrote to friend who asked me about my feelings on the confrontation with Iraq (with some light copy editing). Sorry its taken me a couple of days to get back to you.  I’m…

No $#!^, There I Was

The traditional war story begins “No shit, there I was…” This pat phrase is inevitably followed by a tale, often tall, recounting the narrator’s exploits “down range.” The Ur anecdote goes on to say “… hip deep in hand grenade pins.” The speaker was clearly 1) in combat, 2) in trouble, and 3) managed to…